Irvin McDowell

Irvin McDowell
Irvin McDowell

Naissance
Columbus, État de l'Ohio
Décès (à 66 ans)
San Francisco, État de Californie
Origine Drapeau des États-Unis États-Unis
Allégeance États-Unis d'Amérique
Union
Arme Infanterie
Grade Major general
Conflits Guerre de Sécession

Irvin McDowell () est un officier général de carrière dans l'United States Army, largement connu pour sa défaite à la première bataille de Bull Run, durant la guerre de Sécession.

Biographie

Carrière

Avant la guerre

Irvin McDowell sort diplômé de West Point en 1854[note 1].

Guerre de Sécession

Lorsque le Ier corps est activé, le , au moment où le président Abraham Lincoln ordonne la création de quatre corps d'armée, sous le commandement du major-général George B. McClellan, le major-général Irvin McDowell en prend son commandement. Sous ses ordres se trouvent trois divisions. Il est au commandement de ce corps jusqu'au .

En , il remplace George Wright au commandement du département du Pacifique, jusqu'à la dissolution de ce dernier le .

Après la guerre

Vie privée

Irvin McDowell est l'oncle de la réformatrice sociale Mary McDowell[1]

Il meurt le et est enterré au cimetière national de San Francisco[2].

Notes et références

Notes

  1. Il est de la même promotion que les futurs généraux William Farquhar Barry, Robert Seaman Granger, Justus McKinstry, Andrew Jackson Smith et Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard, William Joseph Hardee, Edward Johnson, Alexander Welch Reynolds, Henry Hopkins Sibley, Carter Littlepage Stevenson, James Heyward Trapier, Henry Constantine Wayne. Les quatre premiers ont combattu dans les rangs de l'Union et les huit derniers dans ceux de la Confédération.

Références

  1. (en-US) John A. Garraty & Mark C. Carnes (dir.), American National Biography, vol. 15 : McCutcheon - Moskowitz, New York, Oxford University Press, USA, , 980 p. (ISBN 9780195127942, lire en ligne), p. 24-25
  2. (en) « Irvin McDowell », sur Find a Grave

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